Day in photos: August 1, 2012

Rescuers help a resident cross a swollen river after heavy rains caused a mudslide in Jinggu, southwestern China’s Yunnan province.

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An Indian consumer looks at ‘rakhi’ (sacred thread) on the eve of the Hindu festival Raksha Bandhan. The annual festival commemorates the abiding ties between siblings of opposite sex, and is marked by a simple ceremony in which a woman ties a rakhi around the wrist of her brother.

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gives a mosquito net designed for malaria prevention to a local woman during a tour of the Philippe Senghor Health Center in Dakar, Senegal.

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Members of Greece’s extreme right party hand out milk at Athens’ main Syntagma Square opposite parliament.

Somali police carry a soldier in Mogadishu who was injured durign a shootout with two suicide bombers, who were trying to blow up the constituent assembly venue.

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Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa and Christine Assange, mother of WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange, look down from the balcony of Government Palace in Quito, Ecuador.

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Plane spotters watch the landing of an Airbus A380 of the ‘Emirates’ airline at the Schiphol International airport in the Netherlands.

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Residents ride on makeshift rafts during a heavy downpour along a flooded street in Malabon, Manila.

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A Syrian vendor stands at his candy and nuts shop in Damascus.

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London Mayor Boris Johnson gets stuck on a zip-line during “BT London Live” in London’s Victoria Park.

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This combination photo shows the women’s doubles pair of (clockwise from top left) China’s Wang Xiaoli and Yang Yu; South Korea’s Jung Kyung Eun (top) and Kim Ha Na; Indonesia’s Greysia Polii and Meiliana Jauhari and South Korea’s Ha Jung-eun (left); and Kim Min-jung. The eight players were kicked out of the Olympic for attempting to “throw” matches.

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Beachgoers admire a double rainbow that appeared over Hilton Head Island’s South Forest Beach after early evening’s rains.

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Multiple bolts of lightning streak to the ground as a severe thunderstorm moves through eastern Henderson County, Ky. The same storm system ripped through Southwestern Indiana, injuring at least four people and causing extensive damage.

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Spanish acrobat David Pereira is silhouetted as he performs on the roof of a hotel during a photo call in Berlin, Germany.

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A man holding a pole to stay on the mound of garbage washed ashore by big waves as others look for recyclable materials along Roxas Blvd. in Manila, Philippines. The slow-moving Typhoon Saola killed at least 12 people and displaced 154,000 in the Philippines.